Improvement in water-closet and chamber-pot guards



LARRABEE.

Water-Closet and Chamber-Pot Guards. No.l55,3l9.

Patented Sept; 22,1874.

i Illlll l UNITED STATFs PATENT OFFIOF..

JOHN F. LARRABFF, oF sAN'FRANcIsco, cALIFoRNIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN WATER-CLOSET AND CHAMBER-POT GUARDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 155,319, dated September 22, 1874; application led March 17, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN F. LARRABEE, of the city of San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented a new and useful Water-Closet and Chamber-Pot Guard, of which the following is a specification:

The objects of my invention are, first, to afford a simple and convenient device for reducing temporarily the size of the hole or seat in water-closets and of the top or seat of chamber-pots, which are often for children inconveniently and uncomfortably large; second, by the non-conducting character or quality of the material with which said device is constructed or covered, to avoid the disagreeable and, to weakly persons or invalids, often in jurious chill caused by sitting upon the bare surface of the edge ofthe seat or chamberpot. My invention consists in a ring or rim of metal or other suitable material, and of suitable shape to rest upon the hole in the seat or rim of the pot, in such a manner as not to be liable to displacement, which ring" is wound or otherwise covered with felt, Hannel, or other suitable non-conductor.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure l represents, in perspective, my invention as applied to a chamber-pot. Fig. 2 is an axial section of the saine.

The form in which I prefer to make the ring is with the external and internal edges lying in different planes, the internal edges being lower when in use, which form is well adapted to prevent displacement of the ring or rim when set upon. The preferable manner of con structing the same is by stamping or spinning out of sheet metal, and the preferable mode of covering the same is by winding with liannel or other suitable non-conducting Inaterial, as shown in Fig. 2, in which A is the metallic rim, and B the non-conducting covering.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A rim or ring constructed and covered with a non-conducting material, substantially as described, and for the purposes set forth.

JOHN F. LARRABEE.

Witnesses:

ALEX. STAIR, E. J. SMITH. 

